Maha govt official arrested for asking for bribe in Rs 100 notes

A Maharashtra government official was arrested in Solapur district after he allegedly demanded bribe and insisted he be paid only in the Rs 100 denomination and not in the demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.

According to a PTI report, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials caught the accused, an agricultural officer with the Mohol Panchayat Samiti, on 9 November, while he was accepting Rs 2,500 from a person who had approached him for some official work, police said.